Anyone following the threads on the budget here feel deja vu all over again when they read this? Or this?

And I’m not just picking on one anonymous senator, either. Last week, Ezra Klein reported that a high-ranking House Republican was completely unaware that Obama’s Grand Bargain proposal includes a reduction in Social Security spending via Chained CPI. Then, a few days later, a top GOP consultant made the same mistake, in hilarious fashion.

So let’s back up. Murphy’s initial view was that to unlock GOP votes for a budget deal, Obama just needed to endorse chained CPI and more means-testing in Medicare. Then it was pointed out that Obama has endorsed means-testing in Medicare, so Murphy wondered why he didn’t endorse chained CPI as part of a deal. Then it was pointed out that Obama did endorse chained CPI, at which point Murphy called chained CPI “a gimmick,” and said Obama had to endorse raising the Medicare age, drop his demands for more revenue as part of a deal and earn back the GOP’s trust.

Obama’s just now starting to call rank-and-file Republicans? “These stories raise the question of why Obama hasn’t been making these efforts all along. This is the fifth year of his presidency. How can it be that the White House doesn’t have stronger relationships with key, non-leadership Republicans? Why is it so rare to hear he’s having key Republicans over for dinner? Why is it news that he’s making calls to GOP senators?”
Ezra Klein

COLMES: I disagree with what he is being said here. $2.50 in tax cuts for every dollar in tax increases.
O’REILLY: That’s not specific.
COLMES: Yes, he has. He has offered cuts in Medicare. He has offered cuts to entitlements.
O’REILLY: That’s not specific. He has to say here are the programs that are going to go down. Here is how we are going to reform Medicare and Social Security. And the man refuses to do it.
COLMES: That’s not true.
O’REILLY: Hold it, hold it, because now I’m getting teed off at you. Give me one damn program he said he would cut? One?
COLMES: He has cut entitlements.
O’REILLY: Not entitlements. One program.
COLMES: Why do you want to yell at me for?
O’REILLY: Because you are lying! You are lying!
COLMES: Don’t call me a liar. Don’t you sit there and call me a liar.
O’REILLY: You are lying — here is the proof.
COLMES: You don’t like the president. You don’t like what he is doing. Don’t sit there and call me a liar.
O’REILLY: I am.
COLMES: I’m not lying. We can have a disagreement without you calling me a liar. That’s not necessary.
O’REILLY: You are lying here.
COLMES: We are not lying.
O’REILLY: Where is the proof?
COLMES: There is difference between having a disagreement and calling me a liar —
O’REILLY: This is why I’m calling you a liar: Give me one program he would cut.
COLMES: He would cut Medicare, and Medicaid offered cuts to those programs.
O’REILLY: That’s not a specific program.
COLMES: You asked me a program. Those are programs.

The Democrats LIED when they said they will realize “savings” from Medicare by cutting reimbursement rates to health care providers which have already been reinstated in other bills or will merely result in cost shifting to the rest of us, so no “savings” of any kind will be realized.

HOUSTON—High-level sources at the accounting firm McCall and Associates told reporters Monday morning that the company does not currently have enough manpower to perform a much-needed round of layoffs. “Downsizing is definitely on the agenda, but right now we just don’t have the staff necessary to take care of it,” said CEO David Carmichael, who explained that both the supervisors responsible for deciding which employees to terminate and the personnel tasked with conducting exit interviews had already been let go. “Trisha in HR used to take care of a lot of this stuff, but she was fired in the last round of cuts. My only hope now is that maybe we can hire a few temporary workers to take care of laying off some of these full-timers.” Carmichael then reportedly raised his eyes to survey his company’s completely empty offices, let out a long, deep sigh, and put his head down on his desk.

You must be getting your presidents all mixed up brewski. There are extensive archives documenting Bush Jr. spilling alcohol on the English language before lighting it on fire, but you knew that, unless you slept through the 2000’s.

“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the–if he–if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not–that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement….Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.”
The distinction between “is” and “was” was seized on by the commentariat when Clinton told Jim Lehrer of PBS right after the Lewinsky story broke, “There is no improper relationship.” Chatterbox confesses that at the time he thought all these beltway domes were hyperanalyzing, and in need of a little fresh air. But it turns out they were right: Bill Clinton really is a guy who’s willing to think carefully about “what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” This is way beyond slick. Perhaps we should start calling him, “Existential Willie.”

Salon

So Larry, if you were married and your wife was sexually assaulted by another man, an elected official, should that official be legally punished in any way? Or would you just say it is some phony sex scandal so your wife has to suffer?

I guess you’re getting back to accusing Clinton of sexually assaulting someone. I have no idea of knowing if that ever happened because we spent 60 million trying to get him for a blow job, NOT sexual assault. THAT is a phony sex scandal.

cav:

I just learned that Showtime is making a documentary about the Chenster. He is asked if he would do the same murderous things he did and he replies something like, ‘in a minute’.

You don’t know what happened? Let me simplify it for you. A bunch of Muslim terrorists hijacked three airplanes. Two of them were crashed into the WTC. In the third the other passengers rushed the terrorists and it crashed in a field in PA.

WALLACE: Do you think you did enough, sir?
CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him.
WALLACE: Right.
CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try. They did not try. I tried.
So I tried and failed.

The Bush administration had 8 YEARS to try. Instead, they closed down the CIA unit that was trying to find Osama bin Laden. And I wonder why that OBL video appeared just before Election Day in 2004 – how did that happen, and wasn’t it convenient for Bush that bin Laden was still around to threaten death and destruction?

brewski gives us a transcript of Bill Clinton apologizing – yet AGAIN. Something that Republicans NEVER do. Cheney says that he would make the worst mistake in American history and invade Iraq again, knowing what we know NOW.

Clinton wasn’t lying. He was admitting he made a mistake, just as Richard Clark did when he stood there before the American people and said, “I have failed you”.